Stomach-bitters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRISON IV. FARRELL, OF NOAH, TENNESSEE.

STOMACH-BITTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,998, dated November 18, 1890.

Application filed September 4, 1890.

compounds, and relates more especially to a preparation designed for use as stomach-bitters.

In making the improved bitters I preferably take about ninety-seven pounds of maize or cornmeal and scald it to convert it into a stiif dough and permit it to stand until the heat decreases to a degree that its temperature registers a little above blood heat, or substantially so. \Vhile in this condition I stir in four pounds of rye-meal, and then sprinkle the mass with three pounds of meal made from sprouted maize or corn, and also add of butternut-bark (Juglans cmerea) a quantity of about one pound. I also take of the bark of tulip-tree, (Lirz'odendrom) poplar, (Popu- Zus,) or quaking aspen (Populus trenwloides) about one and a half pounds. To this is added Serial No. 363,940. (No specimens.)

wild orblack cherry bark (Pmmus Virginiana) to the extent of one and a half pound. I then let the whole mass stand in a summer heat from twelve to twenty-four hours, and. then reduce by adding as much water as may be found necessary, in order to'secure a consistence substantially equal to that of paste. When this stage is reached, I introduce it into a still and boil it until all the medicinal properties are extracted, and this distillate I again subject to distillation until it is further concentrated, at which time the preparation is ready for consumption. It may be used as a tonic and recuperative in doses of a small Wine-glassful at or after meals, the doses being reduced for children in proportion to age.

I claim- The improved stomachbitters herein described, consisting of a distillate obtained from a mixture of cornmeal, rye-meal, malted or sprouted corn, butternut-bark, poplar, or tulip-tree bark, and Wild-cherry bark, taken in the proportions stated.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRISON W. FARRELL.

Witnesses:

A. B. WITHERSPOON,

W. L. HAZARD. 

